North Central Province Governor Maheepala Herath said the students in Rajarata schools should also be in the forefront in the modern technological education component. This achievement can’t only be reached by merely promoting, enhancing or improving the physical resources required in the field of education.
It is my intention to see that every school in the North Central Province will have adequate computerised education facilities and teachers fluent in English and computer science attached to them for the students in rural schools also to face the challenges in the international education sphere Herath said.
The Governor was speaking at a ceremony at the Anuradhapura North Central Province Council auditorium to distribute smart boards and computers to 95 Schools in Anuradhapura district worth of Rs 35 million.
Twenty-six schools were given smart boards and 160 computers for the use in 69 schools. It was revealed at the ceremony that the project was implemented under the World Bank funded General Educational Modernisation Program and under phase one of the program computer and smart board facilities have been already extended to 150 rural schools in NCP.
State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe said that it was the sole intention of the Government to provide the technological education in science, arts and commerce educational streams despite the critical economic crisis faced by the country as such educational reforms were the most important tool for molding men and women intelligentsia and national leaders required by the country in future.
State Minister Semasinghe said that there is no use if the large amount of money allocated for the country’s free education system is not utilised properly without a far- sighted vision. Such a situation would be highly undesirable and fruitless concerning the wellbeing of the country.
He said the online education techniques used at a large scale in the country during the Covid-19 pandemic should be boosted.
Secretary to the Governor Vijaya Wanasinghe, Provincial Education Director Abayalaksmi Hewapathirana, Provincial Education Director S.M.W.Samarakoon and a large number of school principals and teachers were also present.
